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Because in the end, Montuori scored from second on a kelly Davenport single to right, crossing the plate just ahead of Harvard second baseman Mary Baldauf's desperation throw...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Talon-ted Eagles Edge Batswomen in Nine | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...scanty two outs later, Davenport blooped the ball in front of a charging Prior to score Montuori...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Talon-ted Eagles Edge Batswomen in Nine | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...connection with a civil case resulting from the 1981 killings of two anti- Marcos trade-union dispatchers in Seattle. The former Philippine President also continues to be named in a host of lawsuits around the U.S. As lawyers for the deposed dictator fended off legal actions, citizens of Davenport, Iowa, responded enthusiastically to a disk jockey's appeal to ease the plight of the Marcoses--sending 1,500 pairs of used footwear, including bowling shoes and swim fins, to replace the collection former First Lady Imelda left behind at Malacanang Palace. One hundred pairs were sent to Mrs. Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Purging Marcos' Legacy | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...more than four years North Point survived on little more than faith. Its catalog offered some 30 titles a year by such respected but noncommercial authors as Essayist Guy Davenport, Poet Donald Hall and Novelist Gilbert Sorrentino. The company debt increased to $500,000. Still, the house made a virtue of its liability. For one thing, it never insisted on exclusivity. M.F.K. Fisher, the cooking authority and memoirist, was able to publish her new works with Knopf as long as North Point controlled the reprint rights. That way, Turnbull decided, Fisher had "both a husband and a lover." Writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Rises in the West | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Young Hearts Crying slips seamlessly into the group of Yates novels that includes Revolutionary Road, Disturbing the Peace and The Easter Parade. All chart the kind of loss, loneliness and irony that are lastingly contemporary. He is just the writer that Michael Davenport always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Clean | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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